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For somebody in using clappers word to infiltrate. clapper doesnt like to use spy. infiltrate the campaign and get information on it and so -- >> thats not what clapper said. >> thats why the presidents using infiltrate now. >> i see. thats not what clapper said. clapper talked about how they use informants. do you think that somebody was spying on the trump campaign? >> in the context of the description of this professors actions, clapper justified it by saying we always use informants like tha...

Ed, thank you very much. joining us now south carolina congressman trey gowdy chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee and house intel committee. you were one who saw some of the background documents related to this issue of whether or not there was a spy or informant in the campaign late last week. anything that you can share on a broad scale about what went down there? >> i think there are two things important to understand. number one, the source of president trumps fru...

Makes sense. not something thats going to take many years but something thats reasonable in a couple of years. im confident ou delegation would wan to see that from the north koreans. whether they would want to put that on the table or not is another manner. likely there is going to be differences, martha. the summit hinges on whether our delegation in their minds can resolve some of those differences through negotiation where the summit can at least have the strategic framework and begin a proc...

Conference today with sean spicer saying clapper is being misleading. hes changing his story, but, in fact, its the white house who is being misleading, and donald trump is hanging on to this testimony from clapper earlier on and hanging on to some comments made by grassley. this is their big defense. they are hanging on to him, but, again, its -- they are cherry picking and its misleading in terms of what clapper actually said and what he would actually know. >> what white house officials are s...

Him, if he doesnt take these steps to preserve that legitimacy, it might end up harming him in the long term. >> but the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein doesnt think that theres a need for a special prosecutor. >> prior to this week rod rosenstein had a very strong reputation and served as u.s. attorney under both obama and bush. you know, the issue is now that hes sort of complicit in the offering what was clearly a pretextural reason for comeys firing. trump himself said that wasnt the ...

I think lots of democrats are asking for an independent commission and i do not understand why republicans keep trying to block that. >> because three investigations going on here. there is the fbi, there is the senate intelligence committee, the richard burn and john boehner. james clapper said no evidence of collusion. >> clapper doesnt know that! ed that before the fbi -- >> on january 20th. >> ed as of the time he left the government january 20th he didnt know. >> but the fbi has a current i...

>> exacontact is not collusion. >> i never ever met with russians working in presidential campaigns and russian government or official. there is a lot here and devin nunezs behavior demonstrates that the house intel committee seems incapable of doing it and i think lots of democrats are asking for an independent commission and i do not understand why republicans keep trying to block that. >> because three investigations going on here. there is the fbi, there is the senate intelligence committee,...

That would draw the attention of people like having people in his campaign have conversations with russian -- people known to russia intelligence. >> lets peel the unyonion on t. its deny, deny. who is denying theres surveillance on the trump campaign. every denial has been that obama did not order it. okay. its a technicality, he does not order those type of things. and clapper came on. but clapper doesnt run the fbi. there were fbi quotes. but comey never said anything officially on this. and ...

Lot of non-love for this president the way he conducted himself as president. from democrats, sometimes its sharp or sharper from democrats than from republicans in private conversations. the question here is whats the vote count. if the vote count is so lopsided in the senate and in the house, that the president actually vetoes the bill or does he try to negotiate some language to make it more conditional a trigger so he can go to iran and say look, i did the best i could, you guys better keep ...